It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.